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The Impact Of Aspectss-Based Design Intervention In Autism School Design: A Case Study, Magda Mostafa, Marlene Sotelo, Toby Honsberger, Christine Honsberger

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Understanding Political Polarization Using Language Models: A Dataset And Method, Samiran Gode, Supreeth Bare, Bhiksha Raj, Hyungon Yoo

Natural Language Processing Faculty Publications

Our paper aims to analyze political polarization in US political system using language models, and thereby help candidates make an informed decision. The availability of this information will help voters understand their candidates' views on the economy, healthcare, education, and other social issues. Our main contributions are a dataset extracted from Wikipedia that spans the past 120 years and a language model-based method that helps analyze how polarized a candidate is. Our data are divided into two parts, background information and political information about a candidate, since our hypothesis is that the political views of a candidate should be based …

College Council Meeting Minutes (July 24, 2023), Dmacc

College Council

No abstract provided.

John Williams V. Wetzel

2023 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Kevin Lewis V. New Jersey Department Of Children And Families

2023 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Christine Jankowski V. Zydus Pharmaceuticals Usa Inc

2023 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Augustus Simmons V. David Perry

2023 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Legal Experts Weigh In On Affirmative Action Ruling During Seattle U Law-Hosted Webinar, Seattle University School Of Law

News Center Articles

No abstract provided.

Living Apart After Adoption Or Guardianship: Perspectives Of Adoptive Parents And Guardians, Nancy Rolock, Amy E. Korsch-Williams, Chelsea Flanigan

Faculty Scholarship

Background: For children who are not reunified with their biological family members, the child welfare system promotes legal permanence through adoption or guardianship. The intent of adoption and guardianship is a safe home where children develop familial relationships that last a lifetime. However, issues may arise that result in children or youth living apart (LA) from their families after adoption or guardianship. In this study, LA is defined as a youth living outside the home after adoption or guardianship for two weeks or longer because the youth was receiving treatment in a residential or hospital setting, in a juvenile justice …

The Utah Statesman, July 24, 2023, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Putting First Gen First, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

There’s something magical about walking into a room of incoming first-year students, especially when they are all the first in their families to pursue a college degree. It’s a piece of the American dream.

Tobacco Use And Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Women In Aleta Wondo, Ethiopia: An Exploratory Study Of Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs And Behaviors, Anne Berit Petersen

Dissertations

By 2030, sub-Saharan Africa is projected to be the epicenter of the tobacco epidemic. In Ethiopia there is an opportunity to avert an increase in tobacco-induced diseases; however, local data is needed to inform proactive contextualized tobacco control interventions. This cross-sectional community-base study was conducted to assess the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors (KABs) related to tobacco use and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure of women in the Aleta Wondo region.

Summer Language Institute Welcomes 74 High School Students, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

Intensive Chinese program draws record number of rising juniors and seniors

2023-July-24-Passing Of Debra Wilson, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

The college lost one of its most faithful supporters, Debra Wilson, PharmD, who passed away on June 22, 2023, in Johnson City Medical Center. She is the wife of Dr. Guy B. Wilson for 35 years. Together, they have been faithful supporters of the college even before its 2005 founding, serving as mentors and employers of countless ETSU pharmacy graduates.

Debra Wilson graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in 1975 and was a 2001 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Executive Management Program. Until her retirement in 2021, Wilson worked for 35-years as …

Best-In-Class Dining Begins In Fall 2023, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

2023 Student Research Fellowship Program: Serf Abstract Booklet, Ateik Almalahi B.S., Barbara Schroeder M.D., Jackson Brandon B.S., Joseph Mccollom Do, Dylan Conner, Thomas Gus Almonroeder, Adam Vanzile, Samantha Desiron, Brian York, Luke Fisher, Benecia Goka, Jessica Pater, Fen-Leo Chang, Christopher Garcia, Lisa Hollister Dnp, Thein Zhu Md, Gabrielle Lutz, Garrett Maag, Ivorine Yu Phd, Hallel Paraiso, Hannah Huang, Allison Nelson, Doug Vaughan Md, August Rodefeld, Ping-Chang Kuo, Barbara Scofield, Jimmy Yen, Grant Sawyers, Amelia Roebuck, Amanda Coupe, Tungyan Wu, Michael Kipp, Kathleen Sherman, Aaron Williams, Jana Sanders, Thomas Gutwein

Medical Student Research

2024 Student Research Fellowship Program: Abstracts listed

Investigating Post-Operative Refractive Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery to Assess the Potential Impact of a Concurrent Diagnosis of Dry Eye Disease (DED)

The Effects of Integrative Palliative Oncology on Health System Burden

Comparison of Jump Performance, Movement Quality, and Dynamic Balance Among Male High School Athletes with Varying Levels of Sports Specialization.

SSRI Efficacy in Treating Major Depressive Disorder: Preliminary Findings.

Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) to Monitor Neuroinflammation Status During Long COVID.

The Impact of Medical Debriefing on Emergency Department Length of Stay in Trauma Patients.

Impact of Comorbidities as Predictors on Hospital …

Amicus Curiae Brief Of International Scholars In Support Of Appellee And Affirmance, Paul M. Levine, James J. East Jr., Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky, Diane Desierto

Court Briefs

No. 23-7008
Ioan Micula v. Government of Romania

On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 1:17-cv-02332-APM Hon. Amit P. Mehta, United States District Judge

From the Argument

ICSID Convention Article 54 requires the United States to enforce Appellees’ final ICSID award in fulfillment of treaty obligations owed to every other Contracting State to the ICSID Convention. That the courts of the United States must enforce ICSID awards without the extensive review that Appellant demands is at the heart of the ICSID Convention’s multilateral framework for investor-state dispute settlement, and precisely the result …

Multi-Scale Attention Networks For Pavement Defect Detection, Junde Chen, Yuxin Wen, Yaser Ahangari Nanehkaran, Defu Zhang, Adan Zeb

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

Pavement defects such as cracks, net cracks, and pit slots can cause potential traffic safety problems. The timely detection and identification play a key role in reducing the harm of various pavement defects. Particularly, the recent development in deep learning-based CNNs has shown competitive performance in image detection and classification. To detect pavement defects automatically and improve effects, a multi-scale mobile attention-based network, which we termed MANet, is proposed to perform the detection of pavement defects. The architecture of the encoder-decoder is used in MANet, where the encoder adopts the MobileNet as the backbone network to extract pavement defect features. …

July 24 Roundtable Update, Jeffrey M. Wice

Elections, Census & Redistricting Updates

No abstract provided.

Variable Synchrony In Insect Outbreak Cycling Across A Forest Landscape Gradient: Multi-Scale Evidence From Trembling Aspen In Alberta, Barry J. Cooke, Jens Roland

Aspen Bibliography

Using multi-scale trembling aspen tree-ring width data from Alberta, we show that scaling has a profound influence on dendroecological inferencing. At all scales of sampling, there is a significant climatological signal whose strength is nevertheless superseded by the pervasive effect of insect herbivory. At the smallest spatial scale, 20 km x 20 km, we demonstrate a quasi-periodic pattern of sharp growth reductions and the existence of negative spatial correlations among successive outbreaks. At the intermediate spatial scale of 20 km x 80 km, we show that the period 1930-1963 was marked by extremely low correlations in aspen ring widths, with …

The Survival Of Manuscripts: Resistance, Adoption, And Adaptation To Gutenberg's Printing Press In Early Modern Europe, Kaitlin Jean Kojali

The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research

This paper seeks to provide a brief survey of three types of responses to Gutenberg’s moveable type printing press and its effect on early modern Europe: resistance, adoption, and adaptation. Analyzing the respective examples of these three responses to print will help to explain why manuscript production survived in a world that was seemingly dominated by print. Although several different arguments for the survival of the manuscript may be derived from the exhaustive examples of print reactions, the theme of the newfound overabundance of information is the most prominent. This paper opens with an introduction, which is followed by a …

Age-Related Decline In Hippocampal Tyrosine Phosphatase Ptpro Is A Mechanistic Factor In Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment., Zhimeng Yao, Hongmei Dong, Jianlin Zhu, Liang Du, Yichen Luo, Qing Liu, Shixin Liu, Yusheng Lin, Lu Wang, Shuhong Wang, Wei Wei, Keke Zhang, Qingjun Huang, Xiaojun Yu, Weijiang Zhao, Haiyun Xu, Xiaofu Qiu, Yunlong Pan, Xingxu Huang, Sai-Ching Jim Yeung, Dianzheng Zhang, Hao Zhang

PCOM Scholarly Works

Chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) or "chemo brain" is a devastating neurotoxic sequela of cancer-related treatments, especially for the elderly individuals. Here we show that PTPRO, a tyrosine phosphatase, is highly enriched in the hippocampus, and its level is tightly associated with neurocognitive function but declined significantly during aging. To understand the protective role of PTPRO in CRCI, a mouse model was generated by treating Ptpro-/- female mice with doxorubicin (DOX) because Ptpro-/- female mice are more vulnerable to DOX, showing cognitive impairments and neurodegeneration. By analyzing PTPRO substrates that are neurocognition-associated tyrosine kinases, we found that SRC and EPHA4 are …

Administrators' Perceptions Of Reducing Exclusionary Discipline In Black Girls In K - 12 Urban Schools: A Qualitative Study, Lorraine Reeves

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

Abstract

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” —Ida B. Wells

The use of exclusionary discipline has an impact on all stakeholders in the educational system. This includes Black girls, teachers, administrators, and parents. The current study provides an in-depth view of the lived experiences of school administrators when implementing exclusionary discipline and their methods to mitigate the use of such discipline practices in urban K-12 schools. While research is available on the experiences of Black girls and Black boys with exclusionary discipline, there is scant literature on the experiences of the school …

On Being Seen, On Being Legible, On Being: A Black, Agender Perspective On A Career In Libraries, Adrian Williams

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

This ethnographic essay explores the author’s journey in understanding, contending with, and building a career in academic libraries that is affirming to their Black and agender identity. The essay discusses the hypervisibility of the author’s race in libraries, in contrast to the invisibility of their transness, and how that contrast has affected how they navigate their work as a pre-tenure librarian.

Archives Annual Report, 2022-2023, Meg Miner

Administrative Reports

No abstract provided.

Entrepreneurs Find Success Thanks To Greater West Dayton Incubator Program, University Of Dayton

News Releases

With support and funding opportunities through a Greater West Dayton Incubator program, Tastee Smith grew her non-emergency medical transportation business into a profitable venture, including hiring its first employee.

Reckoning Roanoke: A Historiographical Examination Of The Lost Colony, Anna K. Poole

The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research

The disappearance of the Lost Colony of Roanoke is an American mystery which has baffled historians for centuries. This paper takes a historiographical view of the works of academics Lee Miller and James Horn, comparing their research and conclusions on the topic. Miller’s belief that the colony was sabotaged by English secretary of state Sir. Francis Walsingham and Horn’s theory that an English desire for mineral wealth and poor preparation for survival in the New World brought about their demise are each analyzed for their legitimacy, research gaps, and possible biases. Through this analysis, it is concluded that the field …

Perceived Phantoms: A Phenomenological Observation Of Spirituality In Atsumori, Nicholas C. Gilomen

The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research

The paper examines the performance and embodiment of spirituality in Japanese Noh Drama during the Muromachi era from 1336 CE to 1573 CE. It also observes the art form from a modern perspective. Specifically, this research examines the classic Noh Drama play Atsumori by Zeami Motokiyo through the phenomenological lens. Phenomenology is a qualitative study that focuses on the perceptions of the human consciousness, and it allows me to examine the impact of subjective experiences on a person’s sense of truth. This paper examines the spirituality present through the various religious influences that went into the development of Noh Drama …

5 Things To Know Before You Order Uab Swag For Fall, Reporter Staff

Browse All News

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Republication Of “Open Repair Of Acute Achilles Tendon Ruptures: Is The Incidence Of Clinically Significant Wound Complications Overestimated?”, Meghan E. Bishop, Carly D. Comer, Justin M. Kane, Mitchell G. Maltenfort, Steven M. Raikin

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers

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